Molecular Orbital MO Theory Simplified for Sigma and Pi Bonds

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[@emilyh3644]

What I've learned halfway through the video so far! There are atomic orbitals, which belong to unbonded atoms, and molecular orbitals, which are shared between bonded atoms. Within molecular orbitals, the electrons can either engage in constructive interference or destructive interference. This can also be described as lower energy, stable bonding orbitals, or higher-energy, more unstable antibonding orbitals. And... time to watch the next half of the video! :)

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Part two of the video! Sigma bonds are simple overlaps, pi bonds are a different shape above or below the atoms. They have a node in the middle where the pi electrons do not go. The antibonding pi orbitals have a big node/separation between them, making them higher energy, whereas the bonding pi orbitals overlap and have a tinier node. It's like a relationship. If they are angry and high energy and separated they are antibonding and there is no overlap between the pi orbitals and they are unstable. It's like the pi electrons are only on one of the two carbon atoms, giving them different charges and making them unstable. If they have lots of closeness and no distance between they are happy and cuddly and close and stable and low energy! The pi electrons are both equally shared and there are no partial charges. And... time to learn about HOMO and LUMO! Thanks for another great video Leah.

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Electrons: a romantic comedy. Seriously, it makes me more confused when professors bring up MO theory , antibonding orbitals, etc, but don't explain how it's applied to conjugated /aromatic systems behavior...it drives me bonkers....makes everything more confusing. I needed MO theory in plain English and you delivered big time :)

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10:35 it looks like jump rope. The bottom molecule has those blue "ropes" both going clockwise or both going anti-clockwise so one comes down while the other comes up and they entangle and bond. The molecule at the tope they are spinning in opposite directions so they smack into each other and repel.

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Antibonding is when the electrons have very high energy and separate from each other rather than forming a bond. Meaning, they don't exist in the region between the nuclei where you'd expect to finding bonding electrons. I like to think of it as a couple that is very angry with each other and break up

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Constructive interference means that the two waves that are in phase add together to form a giant wave and conversely destructive interference means that the 2 waves which are out of phase are cancelling each other out and you get no wave so we can think of an electron as wave or a particle.

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' double bond in C2 consists of both pi bonds because of the presence of four electrons in two pi molecular orbitals. In most of the other molecules a double bond is made up of a sigma bond and a pi bond' can someone explain this a bit simpliefied , does carbon molecule have 2 pi bonds between them because it have 2 electron each in bonding pi orbital , and no extra electrons in bonding sigma orbital and antibonding pi orbitals

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The carbon-carbon double bond shown in the second example of this video has a single pi bond and a single sigma bond. The pi bond is made of p orbitals that sit both above and below the sigma bond, in a single plane. For help with questions like this and more, I recommend joining the organic chemistry study hall. Details: leah4sci.com/join or contact me through my website leah4sci.com/contact/

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can i ask a quastion? why antibonding has a higher energy level than bonding? i already search article but i cannt understant can u explain to me? Thx a lot

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It has to do with the presence of the node between the nuclei of the two bonding atoms. The antibonding orbital is higher in energy because of the decrease in electron density between those nuclei. In other words, the electrons have less freedom of movement in an antibonding orbital and remain partitioned to either side.

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Just to clarify madam, do anit bonding and bonding orbtials happen or exist at the same time in the same 2 atom? Eg. If i have 2 Li atoms will their bonds have both antibonding and bonding orbitals at the same time?

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The energy within a bond is always fluctuating and so the electrons will move between bonding and anti-bonding

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I sort of like this, but don't understand why there can't be one electron in each hydrogen molecule orbital. It might simply be an unlikely and essentially unstable configuration, no more stable than two separate hydrogen atoms, so just the same as having both electrons in the antibonding orbital.

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When the 2 hydrogen atoms each have one electron in their respective orbitals, they are lone H atoms, unstable due to being unpaired. However if they come together at high energy you get the antibonding molecular orbital (vs the single electron atomic orbital)

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So I need to learn higher math for a better understanding then the analogy?

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Hi! What would an example of something that would case the H-H to go from the low energy molecular orbital Tom the high energy molecular orbital

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